Creating your own SailPi image and flashing it to a MicroSD card

Finally I have managed to make it so that one can make a SailPi image from a .ks (kickstart) file and use it to create a custom image by themselves. The process is quite straightforward for those who have a SailfishOS SDK or familiarity with Mer Platform SDK. Either SDK will have the necessary tools to complete this guide.

Start with downloading the .ks file from this link. Please do note that its a raw text link to a gist, so I suggest you do a curl -L -O to that inside the SailfishOS SDK command line.

This will result your actual image to reside in this directory “sfos-rpi2-1.1.9.28”, with filename “sfos-rpi-sda.raw”. Then as normally with any Raspberry Pi image, choose a disk image writing software to write it to a MicroSD card. Insert to Raspberry Pi 2 and you should boot to first run setup of SailfishOS!